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Democratic senators help now. do you think you'll get it and you think they can get something done in the short window you pointed out? >> i think that there is hope and i think it is now time for democrats to show up and prove republicans are not always right and democrats are not always wrong. i'm sure they have an idea or two that many republicans can latch onto that can help civilize the insurance market and provide lower cost coverage and higher quality healthcare. >> and let me get you in here now following the political bickering, protocols tinkering sony how kippered can they successfu...

>> yeah, the crucial thing to understand is that when the premiums go down it's only because there is poorer coverage. so if you had a silver plan under obamacare in picking up from health care.gov that 70% of the costs. the proposal would make it so the standard plan available with coverage would be just over half of your cost coverage. that's a big amount that's really left for you to have to deal with. and that's what hurts people's health. >> and i think this is what mitch mcconnell knew was going to come out in any debate this week. and if the bill comes back to life we'll be hearing a lo...

Zero opportunities for public input, for the public to see this until tomorrow when we expect to see this bill for the first time. >> shepard: about a 1/5 of the budget affects about 1/5 of the people. when are we expecting to get the congressional budget office score and what are we expecting to have any insight on that? >> that is the million dollar question. or the $100 million question. we're likely to get it monday. that's the expectation. that's when we'll really start to find out how things will go with the vote on this bill. because senators won't be able to make up their minds on it u...

To buy coverage that doesn't involve maternity care, mental health care, emergency care. so people will be able to buy the tiny little piece of the coverage and we'll count that as a stat. as people being covered. that's not a fair way to look at i, is it? >> particularly since the cbo has said if the coverage is not adequate, it doesn't count as coverage if it doesn't meet some basic bare minimum of coverage. >> which was the problem before the affordable care act. it did establish some minimal level of coverage that insure hers to provide and that made it easier for consumers to make an appl...

Newest -- new estimates on cost coverage. the wheels in motion for that to happen at some point tomorrow. >> sunlen on capitol hill for us, thanks so much. president trump's former campaign manager could head to the hill to answer questions about russia and vladimir putin. that story next. show me used trucks with one owner. pretty cool. [laughs] ah... ahem... show me the carfax. start your used car search at the all-new carfax.com.